Last Great Sci-Fi Film?

@XENOWHAT Me too, I liked em' both.

Last great film, IMO,"Blade Runner". Good but not great: "The Thing", "Fifth Element", "12 Monkeys" and "Alien Ressurection". my2cents

Biehn_Bandit wrote: "Planets are cooler than outer space. Only so much you can do on a ship. Alien and 2001 are the only movies that have made it interesting, imo. Even Star Trek (TV) was only really interesting when they touched down. The 5th Elements was like something right out of Metal Hurlant. Starship Troopers was fun. Dumb, but fun." I agree, and for me, it's because both "Alien" and ( particularly ) " 2001" conveyed the complete and total isolation of outer space more effectively than any other movies I've ever seen. I think a lot of people didn't really get the 1940's-propaganda-movie political satire of "Starship Toopers." A buddy and I went to see it, and we were the only people laughing in the whole audience.

@ Biehn_Bandit How could i forget Starship Trooper. The Special Effects in that movie were awesome. Goofy but alot of fun. IMO the SE in Starship Troopers was alot better then that SW movie that can't be named.

Paul Verhoeven is a great satirist. I shouldn't say the movie was dumb, but there was some bad acting by some bad actors in it. Don't know if this was intentional or not.

I Love "Verhoevy" all of his "shiznit"

Tobe Hoppers Invaders From Mars was great too !!!

Ok guys, the following is from 1997 or so, and let's face it... Starship Troopers is a pretty cool hardcore-space-sci fi movie. Of course the Verhoeven one.

Supposedly they're making a new animated series. The Roughneck Chronicles were good but animation has come along way since then.

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@XENOWHAT Yeah you are right! The Roughnecks Chronicles were kind of cool. Let's wait for the new series. Cheers!

oh snap, forgot about Verhoeven last two best flicks *according to the specs laid out by the OP* - Total Recall (the new one will be crap, I can sniff it out already) - Starship Troopers

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The casting for "Starship Troopers" was spot-on. They hired kids who looked [i]earnest[/i] and said their lines very [i]earnestly[/i]. The entire movie is over-the-top hilarious, IMO. I actually thought it was better in that regard, than "Robocop."

This is what i mean the SE were alot more seamless in this movie than the SW Attack of the phantom sith were Lucas went wrong is that whole movie looked too sterile(interaction between bug and human looked real). BTW I noticed nobody mentioned John Carter as a good SCI-Fi movie. I had low expectations for it but left he theater entertained so much so i went back twice which is rare. Admittingly I never read any of the "mars" series books and i know a lot changed but still enjoyed it.

watch them rate the new Total Recall PG-13 we know you're a businessman Ridley, but Jeez, do the right thing

@artyoh Agreed that was what VH was trying to get across. A total militiristic society. Actually some of uniforms reminded me of Nazis. To this day the scene above and the one were they drop in on the planet are some great SE.

Exactly.....we dehumanized the Germans, and to a much larger extent, the Japanese, during WWII....even forced them into glorified concentration camps...to some extent, we became what we feared most.

Now "species"(horror & sci-fi) by far was not a very good movie however it raised some interesting questions. Using our own DNA to destroy us. So I wondered if the "sil" exists in the same universe as a the alien. Both are Gigeresque and the species must have some advanced society to create our own destroyer.

Species and Splice were both interesting T&A sci fi concepts that failed as movies, but they don't fit the original intention of this thread

'THIS SHIP IS A TOMB'. Event Horizon.

ok this something I couldn't resist to comment. There is really no other space sci fi horror movie that can match ALIEN, but for the the closest are: EVENT HORIZON.- despite of its flaws in the script and that is almost an ALIEN RIPOFF, the idea of bringing hell through a ship was interesting. Instead of the same arachosquid thing that infects people and then explode. Besides there a scene when they find out what happened to the crew that is really disturbing

the other are guilty pleasures like: STARSHIP TROOPERS.- sort of like a funny tribute to ALIENS. PANDORUM.- started with an interesting ambience but flopped as it progressed. DEAD SPACE DOWNFALL.- creepy cartoon, I wish somebody can make it for real without looking like RESIDENT EVIL IN SPACE.

and for the oldies PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES. creepy when they find out who is a walking corpse. Actually there is a scene when they find another alien race that was destroyed prevously, like the space jockey scene

gotta admit, I haven't seen any other space based sci/fri movies that did what Alien did. Not one scared me. Nada. Zilch. Zip. Except Space Vampires. Not on the level of Alien, just some creepy scenes. There was a low budget one that was a hell of a lot of fun, I just don't remember the name of it, but it starred the great Bruce Campbell AND Star Trek's Walter Koenig. What the hell was the name of that movie? Very fun.

@dallas! ...[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3AJqPtTRx0]Moon Trap[/url]

12 Monkeys AI I am Legend Total Recall Terminator Matrix Pitch Black, COR Scanners Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Donald S And bw versions) The Mist (If you edited the 3 star wars prequels into one film, itt could be awesome)

reffugee, That's it! Now, maybe it's on Hulu or something. I want to see that again.

I think that Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars had great potential, but the ending was f***ing horrible. some of the visuals reminded me of 2001(space suites are almost identical), and great actors and character development, but the ending ranks up ther in worst ever.

@chthon... I love all those movies you listed, although I am legend was a big let down. I recommend everyone reads the book (more of a short story that can be read in a day), and watch [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlUSh-lMiYo]OMEGA MAN[/url] " the last man on earth always carries an automatic weapon" 9